Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher: Univ of California PressISBN: 052095792XSize: 59.47 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 5668DownloadRead Online
In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its ...

Author: William G. RobbinsPublisher: University of Washington PressISBN: 0295802898Size: 59.96 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 1268DownloadRead Online
The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it?

Author: Michael P. ConzenPublisher: RoutledgeISBN: 1317793692Size: 74.66 MBFormat: PDFView: 914DownloadRead Online
The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years.

Author: Devon Gerardo Pe–aPublisher: University of Arizona PressISBN: 9780816522118Size: 37.10 MBFormat: PDF, ePubView: 421DownloadRead Online
This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives.

Author: Freeman HousePublisher: Beacon PressISBN: 9780807085493Size: 16.43 MBFormat: PDFView: 6202DownloadRead Online
Part lyrical true-life adventure, part social and philosophical manifesto, TOTEM SALMON tells of a watershed community that worked for two decades to save one of the last purely native stocks of salmon in California.

Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher: Univ of California PressISBN: 0520285956Size: 43.64 MBFormat: PDFView: 3644DownloadRead Online
" -- Publisher's description. “I am thrilled to have another book-object in this series, as I devoured the San Francisco volume when I was there, and the New Orleans one likewise. Now finally here is one about the town where I live.

Author: Wendy HardingPublisher: University of Iowa PressISBN: 160938279XSize: 53.34 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 3312DownloadRead Online
"In Under the Sign of Empty, Wendy Harding adopts a transdisciplinary perspective that draws on the theories of geographers, historians, sociologists, and philosophers to understand the reasons for the enduring perception of emptiness in ...